Further Develop my Freelance Business

I decided it was time to start consulting again so I did set up a DBA, this time to do short term freelance work. While I did some fun work for an outfit in California, my full-time responsibilities took precedence and business slowed down towards the end of the year. Right now I’m doing some non-profit work and expect to find new clients soon.

So drop me note if you need help with your web development projects.

Read more books

Here are a few on my queue:

• The Brass Verdict — Michael Connelly (January)
• The Principles of Beautiful Web Design — Jason Beaird (January)
• Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters — Meg Meeker (February)
• Extreme Measures — Vince Flynn (April)
• Guilty — Ann Coulter (May)
• Liberty and Tyranny — Mark Levin (June)
• Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications — Toby Segaran (In Progress…)
• The Last Days — Joel Rosenberg (March 2010)
• Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
• Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja — John Resig
• My Grandfather’s Son — Clarence Thomas

Learn Something New

• Pick up an MVC framework for PHP. Currently playing with CodeIgniter.

  Finished in April — I developed a messaging application for work. It allows feeds, blog entries, press releases and customer notifications to be aggregated, categorized and tagged for public consumption. CodeIgniter rules!
  Libraries used: SimplePie for super fast feed parsing and Arc90′s Twitter API Client.

• Develop more .NET applications.
• Rediscover Java.